Alcoholism thread

Alcoholism thread
I've been drunk for 5 days.

How the hell do people like you do it? Once i drink i'm hungover for a day, then I have no desire to drink for like 5 days at least. The hangover from a 5 day bender must be soul-crushing.

partying with young chicks is one thing but its these fucking degenerates having 5-10-20 standards every day after work and having literally anyone else in your living space just kys

It's progressive and it takes a long time to get here. I haven't had a hangover in years but I get crippling withdrawal when I stop.

If youre enough of an alcoholic you dont get hungover easily. I was drinking a 1/5 of vodka a day for like 8 days straight and never woke up hungover.

I'm the same way I drank an ungodly amount of alcohol when I was younger would get hammer every single night pretty much for 6 years. Then I got a job and I would only get drunk on Fridays be hungover all weekend. Now I barely drink it's been 2 weeks since my last drop. And I feel fine.

youre right. the withdrawals after that many days of being drunk are HUGE. anxiety, sweating, panic, heart racing. its awful.

I didn't drink a single drop since August 2015
am I in the right thread?

all the people here getting hangover
when all you have to do is drink 1/2 gallon water

Can you post the picture without the stupid nigger in it? Who the hell takes a creeptshot with their face in it...

Are you an AA guy. I like when those fags think it's literally impossible to get your life together if you don't go to their cult meetings and "let god do for me what I couldn't do for myself"

5 days as in little naps between or drinking the entire time maintaining a steady drunken state. Would you get withdrawals if you stopped. Doesn't it take a year to become dependent on alcohol. It's not like opiates

20m, It was my first time drinking last month
At first I was afraid but after a while I realised I don't really get drunk easily. I sober up so fast, it kind of gets annoying.

I hate feeling fucked up for 3 days. My body just can't handle it

It helps if you have benzos

LOL good point

Most people can't stop on their own. So mathematically speaking, the power to stop has to be a power greater than them. Does that make sense?

I dare you to drive

I've been drinking alcoholically for 3 years..dinking for about 15 in total. I'm 30.

I literally live in my car man

poppin xanz and drinking daily is da life mane

It's a REFERENCE, you dip!

I get it, user. Well memed.

practice

Really? What does a day look like for you? How do you get money?

Jesus christ are you 5 years old? I'm honestly baffled by how unintelligent you are

You get drunk easily, you barely drank. I'll let you in on a secret, you don't have a high tolerance to alcohol unless you drink a lot of it over a long period of time. And you certainly don't get annoyed by it. You're naiive and stupid

The body develops a tolerance.

But, over time with consistent alcohol abuse the body will start to feel hungover all the time. And alcoholics just deal with it.

When I was drinking everyday, and going on benders on weekends I felt like shit throughout the day till I got alcohol in me. It numbs pain, both mental and physical.
I never realized how good the body can feel until I finally cut back. Gastritis diminished, better sleeps, no fatigue, eating didn't hurt, my liver worked normally again. It's nasty stuff. I'd say keep getting your nasty hangover to keep you from abusing the shit.

any people in here have advice to quit?
been drinking 4-8 8.1% beers every night for the past 7 months. Am i going to have any withdrawals to look forward to? i live a block away from the gas station so i can get it literally anytime i crave. shits hard

I wake up and smoke a cig, steal the liqour and a chaser and am drunk within 30 minutes of waking up. Then i pretty much sit on my phone and listen to the radio all day drinking until i chug a bunch of nyquil to make me sleep. I steal food, sell bottles i stole to minors for money to buy gas and cigs. Im also only 22 and a meth head

i've been drunk off a pint or 2 of this for 3 years

rip lil peep

Just taper off. 4-8 beers isn't much and 7 months isn't that long of a time frame either.

All you need to do is just cut the amount you are drinking now in half, I suggest for every drink you have, equal it with a glass of water, and eat large meals before drinking. Do that for a week, and then the next just try and drink a few hours before you go to bed, so once you do hit the sack you're somewhat sober.
Once you start getting a decent sleep schedule in it's easier.

You can all go to hell. Leave me and my beer alone

Number 1 dont quit quitting. For me it takes a good few attempts before i have a 3-6 month sober bender.
#2 taper off, drink 2 less every night.

I reccomend getting into detox so you dont potentially die when you quit, and going into inpatient rehab. Drinking that much is not normal. Its good to go to rehab and have no chance of drinking for 30 days so you can learn to deal with triggers and cravings

I think hes talking about a 211. Thats 24 oz each. 4-8 of those a day is pretty bad

Tfw 8 pints of normal 5% beer a day for 10 years will give you irreversible cirrhosis of the liver and this is sped up/intensified by drinking more than that

no, but I got cancer, survived it, and live a kinda ascetic life now in various ways

He can still taper off. Just make it two weeks of halving the amount.
Unless you go into a detox center and they drug you up, the only way to safely get off that shit is to have will power and going on a taper schedule. You'd be surprised how quickly the body can react positively even just taking out one drink from the usual.

That just sounds like one of my hangovers

yeah my friend gets the strong malt liquor, and it is like 4 minimum a day if he does not get a hold of liquor, that much is bad for you. Is it bad enough to cause cirrhosis?

sounds like genetics played a part in your case as well. any history in your family of liver issues?

If you keep it up for years yeah. For 7 months probably not

yea it is, with years and years of doing that.
But, cirrhosis is only the end stage of liver disease, fatty liver gives off subtle symptoms that you can't really ignore, if you catch it at that stage you can easily let the liver repair within 2 weeks of abstaining.

Oh no that didnt happen to me, thats just what can happen to anyone. For a normal size adult male 8 pints of beer per day for 10-15 years will cirrhosis you right the fuck up. Scary stuff.

Am I an alcoholic, I drink 3 ipa beers 2 to 3 times a week. weekends usally screw drivers 2 or 3.

Gout is keeping me from alcoholism :) i would drink a lot more than i do without the risk of excruciating pain from overindulging

On Sunday after a 2.5 day bender, you get to bed at like 7 pm thinking 12 hrs of sleep will make it better. You go to bed drunk, wake up at like 1am and cant sleep. You lay in bed and think you're dreaming but not really sleeping. It's like an alcoholic psychosis where you trip out for 5 hours awake/dreaming and then get up the next day and feel like death. Hands shaking, heart racing, sweating profusely, lips chapped and cant eat or drink water. Still can't sleep Monday night and Tuesday is still really bad but by Wednesday you are feeling 80% good. It's sad that basically Thursday and Friday during work are really the only times you arent dealing with withdrawal symptoms all week before the bender begins again at 5pm Friday after work.

Been sober for about a year. Lost 40 lbs but looks like more because the puffy look went away. Eating healthier, clean house and all around happier and healthier.

Yea, it can. But usually people don't get to that stage when they are heavy beer drinkers. Other medical complications generally make people quit.
It's the people who drink spirits that get to that stage.

That sounds like its within a normal range for a young person to me... of course, any doctor will recommend you just have a glass of red wine with dinner a couple of times a week

I have never had a hangover and I drink in about 5 day spurts

amateur, ive been drunk for 10 years

niggers are so ugly they do not even want to look at their own face lol

I don't think those were withdrawals you were describing I think you were malnourished and dehydrated and you were in a week long recovery until you repeated the cycle.
Good to hear you're off the shitty stuff.

I drank a glass of wine around x-mas.

not the original guy you were talking to but i was wondering for my friend, shit he has been doing this for like 10 years now he is 24 or 25, dont really like him but kinda worried

abstaining as in not drinking ?

you will probably have some issues fighting boredom when you quit.. I would suggest you channel that into something productive.. joining a gym is a good way to detox, try to walk on the treadmill for an hour, do something that forces you to sweat and drink lots of water.. I bet your diet is shit too... may as well do it while you are young cause it only gets tougher as you age

Probably a combination. Easy to stay at a reasonable weight when dinner every night was tequila and water.

Amazing I still lost a shit load of weight after quitting. Sucks though that I can't drink any more tho.

If I have a beer or two im usually fine. I csnt even get drunk off beer but if I have a shot or mixer it's a guarantee ill fall back to my old ways. Cant even be around it or else I risk my health.

Shit in always drinking takaa

Is there something about this particular vodka that's worse for you than the others?

Pinnacle Vodka can't be much better

Fuckin lightweight. Been drunk for a decade.

THIS!

been looking for full vid of pic related

Fleischmann for me. 11 bucks for a 1.75er. Go through 3 or 4 a week.

It's not really the particular brand of vodka that does it. It's that it's super cheap and vodka (even cheap stuff) is used so much because it easily blends in with anything and creates minimal side taste which makes half and half mixers drinkable.

Whiskey varieties are not the same. You are wasting money buying anything more than Smirnoff for vodka but whiskey you can taste the difference easily. Bourbon and Tennessee whiskey (essentially the same thing) is almost always expensive.

I know that cold turkey is going to sound like the most effective way to quit, and it is, but you do have to worry about withdrawal

Start by drinking less and less, and over 2 weeks bring it down from 4-8 to 3, 2, and just 1 a night. After that you can quit safely.

Also recommend AA, it's very important to have support and actionable steps to recover, it's nearly impossible to do on your own. Or friends you can commit to being sober with, keep in touch with, talk about your progress and temptations with. You're not alone user

Best of luck to you I hope you get clean

>abstaining as in not drinking ?
Yes.

When the body takes in alcohol it breaks it down into a poison, ethanol. The liver can't deal with it all at once so it trickles some of it out into the blood stream, hence the drunk feeling, you're letting poison flow through your body.
As the liver works hard to rid the poison it allows fat to accumulate in the cells, but the liver doesn't like fat so it begins to repair it's fatty cells, which can cause scaring, in a normal healthy liver repairing won't cause scarring.
But if the liver is consistently being barraged by toxins it can't heal the fatty cells properly and it causes scarring. Do this enough times over and over, and bam, liver damage.

> dinking
Anons drunk right now.

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ill drink to that

Yeah boy I'm drinking rn but am alone, first time drinking alone and it feels so lonely.

do yourself a favor and stop while you can, once it turns into a habit its hard as fuck to quit.

I mean I had family around and they didn't finish the wine bottle so why would I not after they left. Not gonna turn into a habit, won't do again I swear my fellow user.